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Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 2022
The Maḥmūdīyah Madrasa, founded in 797 AH/1395 AD, held the largest publicly available library in... more The Maḥmūdīyah Madrasa, founded in 797 AH/1395 AD, held the largest publicly available library in Mamluk Egypt. Using a combination of paratextual evidence on the library’s surviving manuscripts, archival documents, and narrative sources written by scholars who frequented this library, this article reconstructs the circumstances behind the founding of this library as a pious endowment (waqf). Placing the founding of the library within the context of the tumultuous career of its founder, the emir Jamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Ustādār (d. 799 AH/1397 AD), this article argues that this emir had set aside his personal collection of books as a pious endowment for his newly established madrasa in order to protect them from seizure by the authorities. This article sheds new light on pious endowment practices in the Mamluk era, specifically the endowment of books.
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 2022
The Maḥmūdīyah Madrasa, founded in 797 AH/1395 AD, held the largest publicly available library in... more The Maḥmūdīyah Madrasa, founded in 797 AH/1395 AD, held the largest publicly available library in Mamluk Egypt. Using a combination of paratextual evidence on the library’s surviving manuscripts, archival documents, and narrative sources written by scholars who frequented this library, this article reconstructs the circumstances behind the founding of this library as a pious endowment (waqf). Placing the founding of the library within the context of the tumultuous career of its founder, the emir Jamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Ustādār (d. 799 AH/1397 AD), this article argues that this emir had set aside his personal collection of books as a pious endowment for his newly established madrasa in order to protect them from seizure by the authorities. This article sheds new light on pious endowment practices in the Mamluk era, specifically the endowment of books.